Actor Nick Offerman provided more acid comic relief at the resigning House majority leader’s expense, saying Cantor’s loss in a primary election back home this week means “he tragically got himself a job at Fox News.”

Offerman didn’t give the fourth estate a free pass, either.

“Teddy Roosevelt was a hero of mine, ” he said, adding that the legendary president on horseback probably wouldn’t enjoy dinners like this, because “the news media speaks very loudly, but doesn’t carry big sticks.”

“Don’t worry, ” he told the crowd. “I’m being paid less than Jill Abramson (the New York Times editor fired this spring) to do this job.”

He saved his toughest lines for Time Warner and Comcast, companies on the brink of a proposed merger.

“They are the most hated companies in America,” he said about the empires that own CNN and NBC.

The people who run them are “evil,” he said.

The jury’s still out on whether he was being facetious or not.

The RTCA board members seated at the dais, some of whom work for CNN, covered their faces in embarrassment during his remarks.